New Delhi, Dec 30 : Body of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim was cremated here Sunday morning soon after it was flown in from Singapore, officials said.

"The body arrived this morning and the cremation has been done," a home ministry spokesperson said.

Officials in the ministry said the body arrived in the national capital at 3.30 a. m.

The woman's body was embalmed after a post-mortem in Singapore and placed in a special casket before being flown to India in a chartered Air India aircraft. Parents of the woman were accompanying the body.

The woman was tortured and gang-raped by six men in the national capital Dec 16. She was undergoing treatment at Safdarjung Hospital before being flown to a Singapore hospital for treatment when her condition deteriorated. She died Saturday.(IANS)